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Talker's MagazineThe quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).

The AdvocateNo, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.

Media MattersDocumentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.

Orcinushome of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups

Hominid Views"People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.

Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.

Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."

The Moderate VoiceThe voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.

News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.

HistoryLinkFun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

right-wing blogs we like

The Reagan WingHearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.

October 13, 2010

But hey: those compound sentences won't make themselves: the station needs some dough to stay up and running.

And the faster you get those bucks* in their hands, the sooner they'll shut up and get back to the regular programming you love so much.

As critical as we are, and as unpopular we make ourselves being their only critic, KUOW remains very dear to us.

Despite KUOW's establishmentarian stodge, and resistance to the foresight we're so abundantly blessed with, we depend on KUOW for news, and talk that's not silly.

*Your small investment guarantees the uninterrupted continuation of the dayparts and voices you heard last year and the year before that and the year before that; the tired timeless Mr. Scher; the humorless penetrating Mr. Reynolds; the stolid solid Mr. Wang; PLUS: historical Canadian news men, witty prime time gardening; environmental plumbing tips; drivelsome teenagers with microphones; borelords of the British Columbian cartels; urban night soil foragers; ecological rest rooms; establishmentarian political wonkie-donks; top former somebodies; cranky vegetarians; officious civil engineers; outspoken botanists; singing post-Colombian Mexican parking attendants; aging bureaucrats with talking points; aging talking points with Democrats; authors with 2 books; books with 2 authors; academic wank-doodles; long-winded semi-officials; celebrations of environmental synchronization, profound ambivalence, and mulching... BUT THERE'S MORE!: HOURS AND HOURS OF THE RE-HASHED REHASH OF ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!

May 28, 2008

GOP guber-candidate Dino Rossi appeared on KUOW's The Conversation (m-f, 1-2p) Wednesday as announced below. Here's how it went:

Listening to Dino Rossi trying to stuff his memorized talking points and old jokes from his speeches into the shortest time and space possible, was like hearing a half hour of one of those fast-readers doing the disclaimers on a hemorrhoid commercial.

Guy Nelson, filling in for Reynolds, could have interrupted these rushed Bar Mitzvah-like litanies, but he rarely did.

Invoking his Klinkit grandma who always told him to clean up his campsite, we were amazed to hear that Rossi has been born-again as an environmentalistsince he last ran -- an "entrepreneurial environmentalist," whatever that is.

Although you can't pin him down on whether humans have caused or exacerbated it, he now admits we're "beyond the debate" as to whether the earth is warming. (Wonder what global warming denier and Rossi loyalist Stefan Sharkansky has to say about that? Or Rossi supporters like the pro-global warming Building Industry Association of WA (BIAW) who call the environmentally concerned -- gee, that's everybody! -- "Nazis.").

Although there were few discouraging words from callers or host, a listener asked Rossi to renounce the BIAW, and return all their money after the Nazi remark and their reference to the Governor a "she-wolf." He demurred, of course -- after all, he needs the money!

(We don't think wolfish qualities in an elected official fighting for us is a bad thing, although we're sure the BIAW and Rossi used the term to incite any incipient sexism that might exist 'neath the rocks of the GOP. If we were to assign animal qualities to Dino (which we would never do), we'd certainly lean towards the unfuzzy, the reptilian).

The attempt to bring in the Fox News demon, MoveOn.org was funny if it weren't so deceptive. MoveOn, a grassroots fundraising organization has given money to the state Democratic Party, but not to Gregoire.

Rossi needs to get his demons straight -- and we're sure he will.

After hearing him today, we doubt seriously the governor will have much trouble sending this very flawed and poor performing opponent back to his real estate office and his proper place as an "entrepreneurial loser."
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"When staff found out there was all this money- not only in the bank- but being generated, they asked: why are we duping the donors?"

Speaking is a KUOW insider privy to the public radio station's 2007 annual report due out next month that will show show a $2.5 million "profit." That's up from about a $1.4 million surplus last year.

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Rep. Adam Smith told KUOW's Ross Reynolds (The Conversation, m-f, 1-2p) Friday that there "absolutely" should be an investigation of Rep. Doc Hastings, after former U.S. Attorney John McKay testified that Hasting's chief of staff Ed Cassidy caused him "concern and dismay," by improperly calling to ask whether his office was investigating allegations of Democratic voter fraud in the gubernatorial election.

KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.

KTTH am 770 KHzRight wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.